A discussion on detailed ways was made and vivid goals are being set at different medical units across the country to bring about a new advance in the medical service activities, development of the medical science and technology and consolidation of material and technical foundations by tapping all the internal potentials.

A brisk work is now going on to further spruce up the treatment and prevention institutions by modeling after the Okryu Children's Hospital and the Ryugyong Dental Hospital in Pyongyang and the Samjiyon City People's Hospital in Ryanggang Province.

And plans are worked out to speed up the modernization of pharmaceutical, medical appliances and Koryo medicine factories and put their production on a normal basis and realize the home production of raw and other materials by dint of science and technology.

In the hygienic and anti-epidemic field, big efforts are directed to further hardening the anti-epidemic basis for coping with world health crisis by its own strength and technology.

Meanwhile, scientists and technicians in the field of the medical science research have launched a vigorous campaign of brains and research to attain a goal for promoting the development of the country's public health by presenting many more valuable findings during the period of the new five-year plan.